Kernel module rt2500 has awful performance

Hello, thanks for you bug report

Try rt2500pci module (is in the default kernel).
  - blacklisted rt2500
  - Add rt2500pci to /etc/modules
  - Comment all interfaces in /etc/network/interfaces except lo
  - Restart

Dou you still have problems?

Hi Javier, I followed the procedure (and blacklisted ndiswrapper as well).

I made sure that only rt2500pci was being loaded, and was controlling the wireless pci card, looking at the output of lshw, lsmod, and dmesg

The result is, the module is loaded and the interface ra0 is brought up, however it can not associate to my wireless AP. It does not list the available wireless signals, iwconfig shows the wireless extensions installed on ra0, however it looks like not even a scan can be made. A curious new interface called "wmaster0" appeared together with ra0. I tried configuring it too, however it won't come up.

Situation looks worse than with the "rt2500" module, which can associate and work OK for a few minutes or sometimes hours.

Like we say in spanish, "no anda ni para atras" :)

I had to go back to ndiswrapper 1.42.

Thanks!

Hello Ari, give us :

 - The output from the uname -a > uname-a.log command
 - The output from the lspci -vvn > lspci-vvn.log command
 - The output from the lspci -vv > lscpi-vv.log command
 - The output from the dmesg > dmesg.log command

When using rt2500 driver. Thanks for your work

Command output as requested, please see the attachments.

Today I tried the latest rt2500 CVS driver. It was a total disaster, the machine didn't boot anymore. Thanks to all the rt2500 mess, I am now fluent in blacklisting drivers and reloading ndiswrapper, so I booted with a feisty cdrom, mounted the harddisk, and blacklisted rt2500 again.

This is what you should NOT do in feisty:

* download the latest rt2500 daily from: http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Downloads

* follow the instructions from Ubuntu Wiki for ra2500:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/RalinkRT2500?highlight=%28rt2500%29#head-afca59bb303accf7d6ee9144facd385f7c55fde3

After compiling the new module, I did:

sudo cp ~/rt2500-cvs-daily/Module/rt2500.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/

echo "alias ra0 rt2500" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/rt2500

sudo depmod

This also affects gutsy

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